Authigenic sulfide and carbonate mineral formation in holocene sediments of the baltic sea

Chemical Geology

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 55-73

  Sternbeck, John ^a   Sohlenius, Gustav ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anoxic sediments; Diagenesis; Iron sulfide; Manganese; Rhodochrosite; Sulfur isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AUTHIGENIC MINERAL; AUTHIGENIC MINERALS; CARBONATE; CARBONATES; DIAGENESIS; HOLOCENE; RHODOCHROSITE; SUBPHIDE; SULPHIDE; SULPHIDES;

BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0030887041     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(96)00104-0     Document Type: Article

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